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French Intellectuals Against the Left
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The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s
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Artikel-Nr:
9781571814289
Veröffentl:
2004
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Erscheinungsdatum:
01.06.2004
Seiten:
306
Autor:
Michael Scott Christofferson
Gewicht:
598 g
Format:
235x157x21 mm
Serie:
2, Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Michael Scott Christofferson was educated at Carleton College and Columbia University. He currently is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University, Erie and lives in the Cleveland, Ohio.
In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique of totalitarianism as an abrupt rupture induced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism and revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. The author's focus on the direct-democratic politics of French intellectuals offers an important alternative to recent histories that seek to explain the course of French intellectual politics by France's apparent lack of a liberal tradition.
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